Catherine Blanc, sexologist and psychoanalyst, answers the listeners of Europe 1. On Monday, she addresses Céline, who has met a boy who pleases her.
But problem, the body odor of his new partner is unbearable to him.
Body odor can be exciting ... and sometimes disturbing. Between personal smell and odors specific to each, two people may or may not be olfactory compatible. And if not, what to do? In "Without appointment", Monday on Europe 1, the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc came to the aid of a listener confronted with a problem of body odor.
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Celine's question
"I met a boy who I like very much, both physically and intellectually, but after the first night together I found that I couldn't stand his body odor… What should I do?"
Catherine Blanc's response
“In general, it is normal to be blocked in the event of a disturbing body odor. But when we find ourselves in the same bed, we have a priori already smelled the other. We have already approached, touched , certainly kissed. We do not discover the smell of the other at that moment. When we kiss for example, we breathe, we inhale, we put on heat. The odors of breath or of skin emerge quite strongly.
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We feel like animals, even if their sense of smell is much more developed than ours.
In the same way, more figuratively, we say "I feel good with someone".
In Céline's case, the understanding seems emotional and intellectual, but not carnal.
However, to tell a person that their smell is disturbing, it is better to resort to humor!
And to find a solution, it is not a matter of psychology but rather of hygiene or food if it is a punctual body odor. "